Daily archives: March 11th, 2018

By Raymond Hackney The Domains: Allegravita a leading expert consultancy on the Chinese domain name industry published an article about changes to the Chinese naming system. It appears that Under .CN and .中国, China’s ccTLD (in English and Chinese respectively), there are now officially established second level domains (2LDs) available to registrants. 2LDs under .CN……

By Omar OmarAndWill.com: Today we have a new Episode of the “Does My Domain Suck” series! A big thank you to everyone who have submitted their domain names for us to look over and leave our opinion on. Keep in mind, these are ONLY our opinions! Just because we may say a domain name sucks…

By Kevin Murphy DomainIncite.com: Donuts has consolidated all of its original portfolio of new gTLD contracts under a single LLC, scrapping almost 200 shell companies in the process. At least 196 contracts, each of which were originally allocated to a unique LLC, have been assigned now to Binky Moon LLC. This seems to have happened…

By Kevin Murphy DomainIncite.com: ICANN should continue to fund the independent ICANNWiki project, according to high-profile industry supporters. As I first reported back in December, ICANN plans to stop giving a $100,000 annual grant to ICANNWiki, a repository of about 6,000 community-sourced articles on the people and organizations involved in the ICANN community. … Source:…

By Kevin Murphy DomainIncite.com: ICANN may have slashed millions from its revenue estimate for next year, but it has not slashed deeply enough, according to registrars and others. Industry growth is flat, and below even ICANN’s “worst case” expectations for the fiscal year starting July 1, registrars told the organization in comments filed on its…

By Kevin Murphy DomainIncite.com: ICANN should look internally to cut costs before swinging the scythe at the volunteer community. That’s a key theme to emerge from many comments filed by the community last week on ICANN’s fiscal 2019 budget, which sees spending on staff increase even as revenue stagnates and cuts are made in other…

By Aaron DSAD.com: Listed below are updates on the top ten domain sales from a year ago, as ranked by DN Journal. 1. Single.com sold for $290,000 A referral / lead gen site is live for other dating sites. “We here at Singles.com do the legwork for you. We scour the internet and find only…

By Morgan MorganLinton.com: So I don’t know about you but Sunday is usually a pretty low key day for me. I don’t typically don’t make any big plans on Sunday and really use it as a day to catch up on things I might not have had the chance to do during our typical ultra-busy…

By Travis M. DSAD.com: A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on March 10, 2018. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had…

By The Frager factor The Frager factor: 3 Reasons Your Best Employees Stay, Even When They Receive Better Offers; Tesla Semi does its first production cargo run with batteries on board; A New Nielsen Report Puts Black Buying Power at $1.2 Trillion; Magic Leap raises $461 million in fresh funding from the Kingdom of Saudi;…

By Kevin Murphy DomainIncite.com: South American governments are discussing whether to reverse their collective objection to Amazon’s .amazon gTLD bid. A meeting of the Governmental Advisory Committee at ICANN 61 in Puerto Rico yesterday heard that an analysis of Amazon’s proposal to protect sensitive names if it gets .amazon will be passed to governments… Source:…

By Michael Sumner NameBio.com: The top sale of the day was CakeToppers.com which sold for $13,000 at Flippa. NameBio recorded 171 sales for a total of $110,732 with an average sale price of $648. Compared to the previous day there was a decrease of 25% in the number of sales and the total dollar amount…

By ShaneCultra DSAD.com: I have to admit it was great watching Tiger Woods play and compete for the lead for the first time in a while. When Tiger was in his prime he was like nothing sports had seen since Michael Jordan. Head and shoulders above the rest and doing things nobody else could do….

By Raymond Hackney TLDInvestors.com: Daily Domain Picks 3-11-18 Top sales/closes from yesterday: CakeToppers.com closed at $13,000 on Flippa, that was the top auction on the day. But I might have missed if 088.net closed I will email Michael at Namebio, I see they listed 077.net at $12,361 but not 088.net. caketoppers.com 13,000 USD 2018-03-10 Flippa…

By Michael Sumner NameBio.com: Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age of a domain name, is a great proxy for quality to help the cream rise…